Protrusive Dental Podcast

Full mouth reconstruction — is the aim really the flawless before-and-after you scroll past on Instagram, or is that a trap?

How do you actually know you’re ready to step up from single teeth to a whole mouth?

And when your comprehensive treatment plan keeps getting declined — psychologically, financially — is that the patient’s problem, or yours?

This one is a “your questions answered” episod...

When you walk through the door after work, are you actually present or are you still running the day’s to-do list in your head?

Is there ever a “good” time to have a baby in the middle of specialist training and how do you fund it?

How do the best dentist-parents you know protect time with their kids without their careers stalling?

And can technology actually give you hours back — or is that just another thing ...

Complete Dentures That Actually Work: Impressions, CR & Adaptation

You don’t have to suck at complete dentures — there’s a science to them, and an art you gather with experience.

Why do complete dentures feel so unpredictable — when a crown prep or an endo doesn’t?

What’s the number-one impression mistake dentists make — and the tissue-conditioning step most of us skip?

And when...

Holistic, biological, functional — is there actually a difference, or is it all just marketing?
Are root canals really dangerous — or is that just what the algorithm keeps showing your patients?
When a patient wants their sound fillings out, do you test, reassure, or drill?
And how do you bring sleep, diet and blood tests into a dental appointment without it stopping being dentistry?
This episode sits down w...

Injection moulding is meant to save you time. Too often it hands you a mouthful of flash and a cleanup that swallows the chair time you thought you were saving.

Dr Sandra Hulac is a Clinical Instructor at the Kois Center in Seattle and an Accredited Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. She uses full-mouth injection moulding to road-test occlusions and stabilise breaking-down dentitions, and she teaches the technique...

Your patient is nine years old. One first permanent molar is crumbling — the others look fine. Does it stay, or does it go?

Is that broken-down first permanent molar really down to poor brushing — or is it Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation?

When is the right time to take a first permanent molar out — and how do you read it off the X-ray?

And how do you tell a parent their child needs an adult tooth removed — wit...

Patient has patchy white spots after braces — do you really whiten, or will that just make the spots stand out more?

Tetracycline staining darker than your darkest shade tab — is bleaching even worth attempting, or is it veneers by default?

A single dark, root-filled central incisor — can you fix it without picking up a drill at all?

And how do you talk a patient through weeks, shades and cost so they actually consen...

What if the tray is the reason your whitening results are inconsistent?

Why would a dentist who owns a whitening lab — and holds four patents on making bleaching trays — tell you to skip the tray?

Trayless whitening does not mean strips. It means the patient puts in a retractor and paints the gel directly onto the teeth, twice a day, for half an hour. No impression, no lab bill, no two-week wait, and no soft plastic reser...

Just qualified — so why does it feel like the learning is only just beginning?

What should you actually focus on in year one: the flawless dentistry on your feed, or something far less glamorous?

How do you tell a patient their nerve might die — without it sounding like YOUR fault?

And when a patient says “just do whatever you think” — what do you say back?

This is the conversation every new dentist needs ...

Your patient brushes well, avoids sweets — and still keeps getting decay. What if the answer isn’t in their mouth at all?

What if two inexpensive finger-prick tests told you more about a patient’s gum disease and implant prognosis than anything on the radiograph?

And here’s the uncomfortable one: if the science is this clear, is not checking starting to look like a medico-legal risk? Especially for imlpant sur...

Filling, stainless steel crown, pulpotomy or extraction — how do you actually decide on a deciduous tooth?

Why is the lower first primary molar the one that always seems to flare up?

When should you reach for silver diamine fluoride instead of the drill — and when is a child’s cooperation telling you to change the plan entirely?

And how do you actually do a pulpotomy, step by step, without it blowing up under the cro...

How good is your consent for orthodontics — really?

More adults are having ortho, and more GDPs are providing it. So which risks should you be discussing with every single patient — and which ones depend on the person in the chair?

When a case is heading for a big overjet or a tricky rotation, is that a conversation you have at the start, or one you scramble to explain halfway through?

And what actually makes a consent for...

Ever fancied teaching dental students part time… but no real idea how you’d actually get in?

Are you the kind of person teaching would energise — or quietly drain?

Is a PGCert in dental education actually worth it, or just wishy-washy theory?

And the honest question nobody asks out loud: does it pay anything?

This is an Interference Cast — the non-clinical arm of the podcast — with Dr Rima Hussain, a gene...

Sleep, Airway and Mouth Breathing: An ENT’s Guide for Dentists

Could a “normal” sleep study still be missing your patient’s airway problem?

Why do women and children with real symptoms keep scoring “mild”?

Should a mouth-breathing child see a myofunctional therapist — or an ENT first?

And which four questions screen a child for sleep problems in under a minute?

The roof of the mouth is the floor...

The most important part of your surgery isn’t plugged in, mounted, or calibrated. It’s the person standing beside you.

Have you ever dreaded walking into a beautiful practice with lovely patients — purely because of who you share the surgery with?

What do you actually do, in the moment, when your assistant rolls their eyes at a request for rubber dam?

And should you be friends with your assistant at all — or do...

Is rotary really better than reciprocating?

Can you safely skip the glide path with modern reciprocating systems?

What is the best file system for a GDP who wants predictable endodontic results?

And perhaps the biggest question of all: does the file system matter as much as we think it does?

In Part 2 of the Endo Showdown, Dr Samuel Johnson returns to tackle some of the most common questions dentists have about file systems, glide path...

Rotary or reciprocating files — which should you actually be using?

Is one safer than the other? Does reciprocation really reduce file separation? Are you choosing your system because it suits the canal anatomy, or because it is simply the one you were taught?

Endodontic file systems can feel like a maze of brands, tapers, alloys, motions and marketing claims. But beneath all that noise, the real question is much more practical...

Should we still be drilling early caries lesions?

Where do peptides, resin infiltration, fluoride varnish and SDF actually fit in modern practice?

Is hydroxyapatite toothpaste a genuine alternative to fluoride, or just another dental trend?

And when you see that suspicious grey occlusal shadow, do you seal it, explore it, or actively surveil it?

In part two of this modern caries management episode, Jaz continues the conversation with P...

If you showed the same bitewing to 10 dentists, would they all agree on whether to pick up the drill?

Why does the word monitoring mean nothing to a patient — and how does swapping it for active surveillance change everything from your notes to your indemnity to your government policy meetings?

Is it overtreatment to act on an E2 lesion — or is “watch and wait” actually the lazy answer dressed up as minimally ...